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GOOD-NATUREDLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a good-natured manner
Classified under:
Pertainym:
good-natured (having an easygoing and cheerful disposition)
Context examples:
But he enjoys it like a boy, Mrs. Kirke says, and takes it so good-naturedly that they all like him in spite of his foreign ways.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He had always been irreligious, scoffing good-naturedly at the sky-pilots and their immortality of the soul.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He told her, good-naturedly, that she was young and ought to be amused and entertained, and must not allow herself to be made dull by a dull old fellow.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Old One Eye was not interested at all, but he followed her good-naturedly in her quest, and when her investigations in particular places were unusually protracted, he would lie down and wait until she was ready to go on.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Her eyes sparkled good-naturedly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Whenever he encountered a chance shipmate, and there were many in San Francisco, he treated them and was treated in turn, as of old, but he ordered for himself root beer or ginger ale and good-naturedly endured their chaffing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
